Getting around Impassible

[Woody101]

Hello all, a situation I run into often is that I have a MID (like a railing, cage) that I want to make impassible but it ends up causing me problems such as:

 

1 - I have a floor above it (3D) that I don't want the impassible to apply to

2 - I want to lower that floor (i.e. open a cage) but don't want it to be impassible any longer

 

I always work around it - I figure scripting can solve something but is there a non scripting solution? 

 

Anyone have this problem?

[smeghammer]

Iirc midtex blocking operates for 32 mu height (for certain ones?). Never managed to get it working though...

 

So for my multi floor maps I resorted to scripting, checking the player z position and toggling line blocking accordingly. Worked well enough but would not work properly for multi-player I think.

[Woody101]

Yes, I never got it working either not really understand the other MID related flags... 

[rita remton]

On 2/19/2024 at 9:25 PM, Woody101 said:

Hello all, a situation...

hi! if i may, there are several non-script solutions for this in udmf. you could either use:

 

1) line action 55 (line set blocking) to set or clear flags to block monsters/players.

 

2) an invisible (alpha=0) but solid 3d floor to which could be lowered/raised to simulate an impassible barrier. you could do this by raising/lowering the control sector of the invisible 3d floor.

hope this helps :)

[Woody101]

I never knew how to lower a 3D floor ! This is going to help me so much

 

and I will look into line action 55, never used it 

 

Thanks Rita!

[Woody101]

I used line action 55 and it worked great! 

 

Will be coming in Woody World Episode 6... :-)